Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Blog - The Trouble With Turning Graphite Into Diamond

Graphite and diamond have similar free energies but converting one into the other is famously hard. Now materials scientists think they know why
Converting graphite into diamond has been a long held dream of alchemists the world over. In the modern era, materials scientists have puzzled over this process because it's hard to work out why the conversion is so hard.

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